Robert Chazan, 87, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies When he earned his doctorate in 1967, Chazan led an effort to expand Jewish studies to institutions “all over the country.”
Nina Gottlieb, Holocaust survivor who told her story in an award-winning documentary, dies at 91 Her grandson’s film represented the first time she spoke about her experiences after nearly eight decades.
Jewish Life Stories: A nurse who met Churchill, a rabbi who warned about the Internet “I remember Churchill came to visit, a cigar in his hand, and thanked us for our service,” she once recalled. “That was something.”
Jewish Life Stories: A lone soldier, the voice of the Shangri-Las, two giants of American health care